I laughed and laughed when I saw who was No. 6 on the list of Prosecutor Chaika’s defenders.
Chaika must really be short on allies if they had to pull the notorious police major Pavel Karpov out of the dusty closet—the same one implicated in the “Magnitsky case.”
If you’ve forgotten this character, watch the excellent ten-minute film about him. I really put a lot of effort into spreading this and other videos about the “untouchable caste,” and I’m very proud of that.
According to an investigation by colleagues of Magnitsky, who died in prison, this modest Interior Ministry major bought a $1 million apartment in the Shuvalovsky residential complex and registered it in his mother’s name.
There was a whole fleet of cars too, including a Porsche Cayenne and other little luxuries that, of course, a 32-year-old police major can surely afford.
My favorite Karpov story is when he sued Browder in a London court over these videos. Litigation in London costs tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of pounds, and when Karpov was asked, “Where did the money come from?”, he started offering explanations along the lines of: I’m a young and unmarried police major; I have oligarch friends who give me expensive gifts.
It’s just magnificent—you couldn’t come up with something like that in any parody or comedy.
And now they’ve brought in this Karpov to launder Chaika’s reputation and shift attention away from him and onto Browder, for some reason. Though maybe it is logical—everything is relative in this world, and compared with the Tsapok gang (a notorious Russian criminal gang), even Karpov doesn’t look so bad. Adding a bit of shoe polish in the form of a police major receiving expensive gifts from oligarch friends to this hellish barrel of tar won’t make it any worse.
Choosing Browder looks weak. After all, it was already said that Navalny got the material from the CIA, so why take a step down now?
Besides, Karpov says in his statement that our film came out after some search in Cyprus. Bad, very bad. After all, our investigation was released after the Turks shot down our plane. So obviously the ACF investigation was commissioned by Erdoğan as an extra stab in the back.
This is my answer to Chaika, the Investigative Committee, and everyone else. About Browder. I highly value his work in pursuing those who killed Russian citizen Sergei Magnitsky and those who stole hundreds of millions from the Russian budget. I helped distribute his videos and will keep helping, even if the people featured in them sue me, as Vladlen_I_feel_bitter_Stepanov did.
Browder recently even sent me his book from London and signed it.
It’s very good—I recommend it to everyone.
There, I’ve said my piece about Browder.
And now, could I please hear some explanations about Artyom Chaika, about the business ties with the Tsapok gang (a notorious Russian criminal gang), about the death of shipping executive Palyonny, about Igor Chaika’s multi-billion-ruble contracts, and about everything else in our film, which has already been watched by 3.2 million people?
The statements contained in the video “Russian Untouchables 2. Pavel Karpov. (The Untouchable Caste)” claiming that: “Pavel Aleksandrovich Karpov, personally or with the help of others, took part in the torture and murder of auditor S.L. Magnitsky in order to conceal his involvement in fraud against the Hermitage Fund”; “Pavel Aleksandrovich Karpov participated in fraud and stole $230 million from the Russian treasury, laundering the stolen funds through the purchase of movable and immovable property, including an apartment worth about $1 million”; “Pavel Aleksandrovich Karpov took part in the abduction of F.M. Mikheev for the purpose of extorting money, and later, in order to cover up this fact, fabricated a criminal case against him and helped secure a sentence of lengthy imprisonment” were found by the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow, in its ruling of March 10, 2015, to be untrue.